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  University Park PA (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 Rocks, rain and carbon dioxide help control Earth's climate over thousands of years - like a thermostat - through a process called weathering. A new study led by Penn State scientists may improve our understanding of how this thermostat responds as temperatures change. "Life has been on this planet for billions of years, so we know Earth's temperature has remained consistent enough for there to be liquid water and to support life," said Susan Brantley, Evan Pugh University Professor and Barnes Pro ... read more |
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Are plastics in the ocean as big a problem as widely believed?Washington DC (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 It is understood that plastic pollution is one of the great environmental problems of our time, but do we not know enough to solve it already? In Plastic Pollution in the Global Ocean, a number of f ... more  
Protecting 30 percent of oceans a huge challenge for the planetMontreal (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 How do we go from protecting eight percent of marine areas to 30 percent in less than 10 years? This question is at the heart of a global forum in Canada this weekend aiming to save marine ecosystems under threat from overfishing, pollution and climate change. ... more  
NASA-ISRO earth science instruments get send-off before moving to IndiaPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2023 Dignitaries from the U.S. and Indian space agencies, along with members of the media, were invited to see NISAR's science payload in a Jet Propulsion Laboratory clean room. It's nearly time fo ... more  
Arctic blast breaks US wind-chill recordNew York (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 An Arctic blast that brought "frostquakes" to parts of the United States saw the country record its lowest ever wind-chill temperature, meteorologists said Saturday. ... more |
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Moderately strong quake hits off central Japan
Indonesia digs out as flooding, landslide death toll hits 20 16 dead, seven missing in Indonesia flood: disaster agency Storm Bert bring widespread flooding in Britain Landslide kills nine in DR Congo Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK are Storms bring chaos to Ireland, France, UK Storm Bert wreaks havoc across UK and Ireland IMF sees 'limited' impact of floods on Spain GDP growth Libya's Derna hosts theatre festival year after flash flood |
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Avalanches in Austria, Switzerland kill fiveVienna (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 Avalanches in Austria and Switzerland have left five people dead, leading officials to warn on Saturday of the risks posed by particularly unstable snow cover. ... more  
Death toll in Chile forest fires rises to 23: officialConcepcion, Chile (AFP) Feb 5, 2023 At least 23 people have died in hundreds of forest fires whipped up amid a blistering heat wave in south central Chile, a senior government official said Saturday night. ... more 
France destroys seaside flats threatened by coastal erosionSoulac-Sur-Mer, France (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 French authorities on Friday started demolishing a seaside block of flats that has come to symbolise the country's battle against climate change-linked coastal erosion. ... more  
Endangered monarch butterflies face perilous stormSanta Cruz, United States (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 As devastating storms pounded California, nature lovers feared for endangered monarch butterflies that winter there as part of a seemingly magical migration pattern. ... more |
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China to fully reopen borders with Hong Kong, MacauHong Kong (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 China said on Friday it will fully restore travel across its borders with Hong Kong and Macau next week, dropping Covid testing requirements and daily quotas after a lengthy pandemic separation. ... more 
Sumatran tiger captured in Indonesia after second human attackBanda Aceh, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 A Sumatran tiger believed to have attacked and injured farmers in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh was captured on Saturday after a days-long hunt. ... more 
Rise in air pollution correlates to creation of impressionist painting, study saysWashington DC (UPI) Feb 4, 2021 Smoggy air during the Industrial Revolution may have contributed to the creation of impressionism, inspiring painters such as J.M.W. Turner and Claude Monet to develop new painting styles, according to a new study. ... more  
UK mega-lab generates weather to test homes of futureSalford, United Kingdom (AFP) Feb 5, 2023 The thermometer sinks below zero as a blizzard of fine snow descends on two houses freshly built inside a massive laboratory in northern England. ... more |
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Sri Lanka weighs 'failures' on independence milestoneColombo (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 Sri Lanka marked 75 years since independence with a sombre military parade on Saturday, as its president urged reflection on past "errors and failures" at a time of national crisis. ... more 
Brazil scuttles warship in Atlantic despite pollution concernsRio De Janeiro (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 Brazil on Friday sank a decommissioned aircraft carrier, the Navy announced, despite environmental groups claiming the formerly French ship was packed with toxic materials. ... more  
Ethiopia PM holds first meeting with Tigray leaders since peace dealNairobi (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday held his first face-to-face meeting with Tigrayan leaders since a peace deal was agreed last year, officials and state media said. ... more 
Watchdog accuses Burkina army of killing 25 civiliansOuagadougou (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 A human rights NGO in Burkina Faso has accused the army of killing at least 25 civilians in the troubled nation's east, after relatives reported deaths to the group this week. ... more  
Fossilized 319-million-year-old fish illuminates backboned animals' brain evolutionBirmingham UK (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 A 319-million-year-old fossilised fish, pulled from a coal mine in England more than a century ago, has revealed the oldest example of a well-preserved vertebrate brain. CT-scanning, where X-rays ar ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 03, 2023 
Creeping from just a finger's width up to a few feet per year, slow-moving landslides occur naturally throughout the world. They typically are detected inching downslope in rocky areas with high seasonal precipitation and clay-rich soil, and they can take months to years - even centuries - to develop. Yet they can also bring sudden violence. Thousands of landslides are flowing, slipping, topplin ... more |
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 Glasgow, Scotland (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
The 'mirrors' exist for only a fragment of time but could help to reduce the size of ultra-high power lasers, which currently occupy buildings the size of aircraft hangars, to university basement sizes.
They have potential to be developed into a variety of plasma-based, high damage-threshold optical elements that could lead to small footprint, ultra-high-power, ultra-short pulse laser syst ... more |
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 Los Angeles (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 
California has submitted a rival plan for use of the Colorado River, after six other states accused it of refusing to cooperate in the battle over usage of a dwindling major US watercourse.
Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming were given until January 31 to come up with a plan to slash the amount of water they take from the river - or face a solution imposed b ... more |
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 Laramie WY (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Receding glaciers in the northern Antarctic Peninsula are uncovering and reexposing black moss that provides radiocarbon kill dates for the vegetation, a key clue to understanding the timing of past glacier advances in that region.
A University of Wyoming researcher led a study that determined the black moss kill dates coincide with evidence of glacier advances from other studies that foun ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic revolution radically changed the economy, diet and structure of the first human societies in the Fertile Crescent of the Near East. With the beginning of the cultivation of cereals -such as wheat and barley- and the domestication of animals, the first cities emerged in a new social context marked by a productive economy. Now, a study published in the journa ... more |
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 General Santos, Philippines (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 
A 6.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the southern Philippines on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with local authorities warning of aftershocks and possible damage.
The shallow quake struck at 6:44 pm (1044 GMT), near Monkayo municipality in Davao de Oro province on Mindanao island.
Shallow earthquakes tend to cause more damage than deeper ones, but there were no immediate reports ... more |
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 Nairobi (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Friday held his first face-to-face meeting with Tigrayan leaders since a peace deal was agreed last year, officials and state media said.
The talks were held almost three months to the day since the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) signed an agreement to silence the guns after two years of brutal war.
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Exactly 100 years ago, the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered, complete with his world-famous mummy. Since then, researchers have learned a lot about how the ancient Egyptians prepared bodies for mummification. Until now, however, too little was known about how they ultimately made the bodies of the deceased immortal by embalming them. A German-Egyptian team of researchers has now been able to g ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
At a time when climate change is making many areas of the planet hotter and drier, it's sobering to think that deserts are relatively new biomes that have grown considerably over the past 30 million years. Widespread arid regions, like the deserts that today cover much of western North America, began to emerge only within the past 5 to 7 million years.
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 Luxembourg (SPX) Feb 03, 2023 
Kleos Space has reached the milestone of daily product delivery collected from a strategically critical area of interest to its early adopter customers. RF data is collected by the Vigilance Mission (KSF1) satellites and is then processed through Kleos systems to generate intelligence products.
The Vigilance Mission RF data collection satellites are in a sun synchronous low Earth orbit ena ... more |
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 Durham UK (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
Ancient fossils have shed new light on a type of sea worm linking it to the time of an evolutionary explosion that gave rise to modern animal life.
Researchers at Durham University, UK, and Northwest University, Xi'an, China, examined 15 exceptionally preserved fossils of the annelid worm Iotuba chengjiangensis dating from the early Cambrian period 515 million years ago.
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 Paris (AFP) Feb 1, 2023 
Corporations and consumers are the main obstacle to the emissions cuts needed to keep global warming to the 1.5-degree Celsius limit, researchers said Wednesday, adding that "positive signs" in other areas are not yet enough to meet climate goals.
The report by a multidisciplinary team of researchers warned that staying within the 1.5C goal was "not plausible", but that this could change if ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Jan 31, 2023 
New lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes are lightweight, inflammable, pack a lot of energy, and can be recharged very quickly, but they have been slow to develop due to mysterious short circuiting and failure. Now, researchers at Stanford University and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory say they have solved the mystery.
It comes down to stress - mechanical stress to be more ... more |
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 Banda Aceh, Indonesia (AFP) Feb 4, 2023 
A Sumatran tiger believed to have attacked and injured farmers in Indonesia's westernmost province of Aceh was captured on Saturday after a days-long hunt.
It comes after two separate tiger attacks in the same Sumatran town over the past week left at least four people seriously injured.
The animal entered a trap set by conservationists inside a forest reserve early Saturday in the town o ... more |
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 Hong Kong (AFP) Feb 3, 2023 
The trial of 47 of Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy figures begins on Monday, in the largest prosecution under a national security law that has crushed dissent in the city.
The proceedings are expected to last more than four months, and the defendants face sentences of up to life imprisonment if convicted.
Authorities have accused the 47 of trying to topple Hong Kong's China-appr ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Feb 01, 2023 
One third of premature deaths attributable to higher temperatures in European cities during summer 2015 could have been prevented by increasing urban tree cover to 30%, reveals a modelling study published in The Lancet. The study also found that tree cover reduced urban temperatures by an average of 0.4 degrees during the summer.
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